Wormwood by a boy in Y8 at Sawtry Community College

After reading the first few pages of Wormwood by G.P.Taylor, I already had loads of questions that needed to be answered.

At the start, a strange book, the Nemorensis, is introduced, and the story mostly revolves around it. Im the Nemorensis, someone ahs written about out-of-the ordinary occurances, which do actually happen.

Wormwood can be described in many ways. There is some fantasy, science-fiction, horror and mystery. All the characters range from being angles to ghosts, and humans to evil, warped creatures.

Anyway, a new scientist, Dr Sabien Blake, owns the Nemorensis, and partly discover its powers of telling the future. However, the book has a mind of its own. It is able to make people bitter, and have cruel thoughts, and can even create more pages for itself. There is chaos in London when Blake's discovery comes to light, starting with the total darkness, then rabid dogs, and then creatures being created out of clay, and his own fingernails, and sent to kill him. Also when Blake learns that some of his friends have been murdered, and that he has an angel looking after him, he forgets his science and starts to understand magic.

This book has been written as if these extraordinary creatures and occurances could actually happen at any moment, making my spine tingle when I read it alone!